Federico Fellini couldn’t figure out how to make a movie and made a movie about not being able to make a movie. I’m still trying to figure it out.
Author Archives: Daniel Joslyn
HIGH NOON (1952)
A western parable in which Gary Cooper is very convinced he is right and everyone else is wrong. He would have fit right in on Twitter.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
There are very few perfect movies in the world. This is one of them.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
An “ultra-violent” discussion of free will, human nature, and what it means to be good. At least, I think that’s what’s happening?
KING KONG (1933)
The original monster movie continues to thrill when it comes to its giant gorilla. The rest of the movie has not aged as well.
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985)
Madonna’s first major movie role was in this extremely 80s update of the screwball comedy.
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
A wildly popular, theoretically inspirational prison drama slash… allegory? metaphor? daydream?
ÉL (1953)
At one time one of the lesser-known films of the great director Luis Buñuel, this melodrama about abuse and privilege now seems decades ahead of its time.
PSYCHO (1960)
Alfred Hitchock’s sort of crazy little thriller basically invented the slasher genre and is still studied by film nuts sixty years later.
WILLOW (1988)
A mostly forgettable High Fantasy romp, with Warwick Davis playing a literal little guy fighting an evil sorceress.
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